"Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!"
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"Let the poor man mind his tongue"
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"What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?"
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"Walls have tongues, and hedges ears."
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"Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris."
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"The tongue of man is a twisty thing."
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"It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue."
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"It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn."
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"My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged."
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"When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these."
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"A great ox stands on my tongue."
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"Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it."
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"I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself."
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"It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment."
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"She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up."
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"I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened."
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"When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man."
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"Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone."
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"...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind."
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"You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs."
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